Everyone in the City Gives Me a Little Vitality Every Day

(The rating just came out, so it might go up, or it might not. Feel free to make of it what you will!) Three hundred years after spiritual qi revival, humanity is barely hanging on. Chen Jue was expelled from Modu University of Martial Arts, dumped by his girlfriend in front of everyone, and forced to slink back to Qingshi City, a border wasteland on the verge of being abandoned. Ding! [Population Vitality Dividend System activated] [Permanent residents detected: 120,000] [Daily vitality income: 120,000 points!] Others cultivate painstakingly for ten years and barely break a thousand vitality points. He takes a nap, and his vitality instantly crushes that of an intermediate martial artist. He sleeps for a month, and even Grandmasters have to call him Dad. “City Lord, a bandit gang outside the city is trying to steal our food!” Chen Jue: Are these people insane? Steal my food? If my residents lose even a pound, I lose vitality! Touch my people, and you touch my money! [System notification: Host is advised to maintain the health of the population. Blueprint unlocked: Basic Spirit-Gathering Formation] From then on, Chen Jue embarked on an unprecedented path: Build houses for the residents, and his vitality rises. Give the residents meat, and his vitality rises. Build schools for the residents... and his vitality still rises! The whole world is fighting desperately to cultivate. Only he is working desperately on infrastructure. Federal Council: “Qingshi City? Wasn’t that dump supposed to have been swallowed by the beast tide long ago?” Three years later. Hundreds of millions kneel at the gates of Qingshi City, weeping and begging for an outer-city residence permit. Chen Jue stands atop the city wall, looking down on the world: “Want to enter my city? Sure. But from today on, your vitality belongs to me, too.”